#10 February 2025
Hi everyone (and happy Valentine's Day!) It's been a little bit since I wrote an update here... things have been pretty up and down on a personal front, plus we didn't have much to report on The Vow yet. Of course, I'm here now to tell you there is something cool to announce: the print proof has arrived!!!
There's just a couple adjustments left to be made, which I've already sent back to our printer. The Vow more real than ever babey
I'm drafting this in tandem with a Kickstarter update so I'll repeat it here just to be sure: if you pledged for a print copy of The Vow, check your email inboxes for a survey from Backerkit! Now that we've got the proof and are about to start rolling out the final print order, it's time to collect addresses and shipping fees. We can't get your book(s) out without the surveys, so please keep an eye out for that!
For non-backers: we are going to have a heap of extra paperbacks once fulfillment for the Kickstarter ends! Our lovely printer Keness helped us get a really good deal, so there will be lots of physical copies of The Vow available to everyone soon. (If you're looking around for a US-based printer, we can't say enough good things about Keness. I've worked with them before on smaller-scale orders, but the help they've lent us on this project has been above and beyond. Great folks!)
I'm still working out logistics of what our next print run will look like, but we've got a good amount of runway. Exciting stuff (:
Other orders of business:
- Erotic queer isekai VN Monstrous Liberation will be launching in Early Access on March 17! I do the UI as well as some background work for ML, and Bigg + Pacha are a total killer combo for enjoyable + heartfelt porno. If you're interested in fantasy fuckworlds with lush art and writing, please check out Monstrous Liberation and wishlist it. It helps us a ton!
- Bigg is also seeking pitches for the next installment of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of longform essays on adult gaming. AAA is looking for submissions about 1k-2k words in length about porn games or the culture around playing them. This anthology covers a huge range of topics, so if there's something that you've been kicking around, you should read the details and send in your pitch!
- We've been waitlisted for MCAF 2025 and will know by the end of the month whether or not we'll be attending. Fingers crossed, because we would LOVE to return to Montreal with a table full of The Vow! (Also, I just like Montreal in general. I love to have more excuses to visit it.)
- I typed up the first of several digests on movies I watched in 2024 for my blog. I'm a bit mortified to still be working on the rest halfway through February, but talking semi-seriously about films is a part of my brain I'm not used to working out.
- Speaking of unused muscles, I recently finished a total revamp of the code for my personal website. It's quite simple, but as with every programming project I had to learn a lot while making it, and I'm fairly proud of the result. Take a look!
That's all for this dispatch. As always, thank you for reading!
Watching: Currently between shows after falling off Letterkenny hard lol. Severance is beckoning me to start it, but unftly until I get into the swing of things with my current temp job it's mostly Northernlion time here.
Misc: I recently wrapped up Alan Wake with a friend and am about to get into the DLC! It's my first time with the series and his first with anything past 1, so we're about to pass into the great unknown together. I'm also finally playing Misericorde... I struggle with setting aside the time for games that I can't just poke at briefly during work (i.e. Balatro or sudoku) but Misericorde draws me in effortlessly every time I sit down with it.